Now is a time for growth

12:56 PM,
Oct. 24, 2013

Written by

Eugene Robinson

WASHINGTON -- It's fine to talk -- eventually -- about chronic deficits and mounting debt. But now that our government is up and running again, the nation's first priority should be economic growth.

Sorry if this gives conniptions to all you deficit hawks out there. Actually, I'm not that sorry, because it was the hawks' over-the-top warnings of impending doom that provided intellectual cover for the meat-cleaver budget cuts we're living with today.

Partly because of those "sequestration" cuts -- and because the economy is slowly improving -- the federal government's annual budget ...